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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 07:27:32 -0400
From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: http://rah.star-gate.com/HyperNews/get/forums/sound.html
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Amancio Hasty:
 |Randall Hopper :
 |> I'm assuming that this will auto-grab relevant messages posted to the
 |> multimedia mailing list.  I don't want to have to bring up Netscape/lynx to
 |> go browse for new articles and to post responses regularly. 

 |For a project , I think that there is a need to have information repositories
 |whose content are controlled and organized . A good example is
 |Bt848 Project Web Page: http://freebsd.org/~fsmp/HomeAuto/Bt848.html
 |It would have been nice to have archived some of the dialogues that
 |we have carried out in the Bt848 project about design/trade off issues.

I agree with most of that.  I would see the utility in archiving the entire
multimedia list in one of these search engines.  Like you, I sometimes wish
that I could go back and find a specific post I'd seen in recent weeks that
I didn't happen to save at the time.  An "up-to-date", flexible, controlled
archive of everything posted to the multimedia list (i.e. content not
moderated) would be useful.  The list archive off the FreeBSD home page, of
course, doesn't meet the up-to-date and flexible criteria. :-)

However, two issues:
    1) list splitting
    2) web-based posting & new-message browsing

First, splitting the list up into separate lists at this point could be
counterproductive.  Currently, this list is "the place" to look to find out
about the latest goings on with sound and video in FreeBSDland or to ask
multimedia questions that'll get the attention of the appropriate
developer(s).  If we fork-off into web pages, it becomes more difficult for
newcomers to hook-in and find out what all's going on so they can
contribute.  Now if the multimedia list was a heavy-traffic list, my
opinion here would be different, but its not.

Second, list splitting aside for a moment, there's the issue of web-hosted
posting and new-message browsing.  A web interface is good for
browsing/searching archives, not IMO for posting & reading new mail.  SMTP
and NNTP tools are designed for this; Web tools IMO are still playing
catch-up.

Now if you were intending on having a gateway that would SMTP-out new list
mail and accept new list mail via SMTP-in, that sounds good.  But you
didn't mention that.  Maybe you want to describe what you're proposing in
more detail so the list can discuss it and can evaluate which direction the
group should elect to go.

Randall